Madonna plans to invest $15 million in an all-girls school in Africa

Madonna plans to build an all-girls school in Malawi where she adopted her son David Banda, now 5 and Mercy James, 4. The proposed institution to be built in Blantyre, near the capital of Lilongwe caused controversy amongst the locals when they found out that more than 200 of the inhabitants would have to be relocated in spite of the $115,000 compensation that Madonna is estimated to be offering in return for their resettlement.
"The district commissioner for Lilongwe told the villagers to move off the land and [make] way for the construction of the academy because it was government land reserved for development projects," a Malawi government official told Agence France-Presse.
The proposed project estimated to be completed in the beginning of 2012 would help over 500 girls in need should it go ahead.